B50336-Skene

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Name of the family:

Skene

Blason:

Gu. three skenes, or daggers, paleways in fess ar. hilted and pommelled or, on the point of each a wolfs head couped of the third-" Some," we quote Sir George Mackenzie, "derive their names as well as their arms from somo considerable action, and thus a second son of Strdan Robertson, for kiUlng a wolf in Stocket Forest, by a dirk in the king's presence, got the name of Skene, which signifies a dirk in Irish, and three dirk points in pale for his arms."

Crest(s):

A dexter arm from the shoulder Issuing out of a cloud, holding in the band a garland ppr.

Supporters:

Dexter, a High-landman in his proper garb, holding a Bkene in his right hand in a guarding posture; sinister, another Highland man in a servile habit, his target on the left arm, and the Darlach by the right side ail ppr.

Motto:

Virtutls regia merces.

Info about the family:

Skene, co. Aberdeen; an ancient Scottish family, supposed by some authorities to have descended from a younger son of Robertson, of Strowan; the last, George Skene, Esq., of that Ilk, d. in 1825, having made a disposition of his estates in favour of his nephew, Lord Fife

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930

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